 Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens...  Poems - Page 59by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens...seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why then wert there, O rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1891 - 192 pages
...Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn, About the lonely moated grange." — Tennyson. " Bhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." — Emerson. " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why _I This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them,...seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thon wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 pages
...cool, And c*urt the flower that cheapens liis array. Rhodora 1 if the sages ask thee why This cliarm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that...seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why tliou wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | 1891 - 734 pages
...array. Rhodora • if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask ; I never knew, But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - 1891 - 108 pages
...one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. —Robertson. Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Deep streams run still — and why? Not because there are no obstacles, but because they altogether... | |
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 118 pages
...WISDOM OF THE WISE. BEAUTY. 'Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. SIR A. HUNT. If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. RW EMERSON. BEING GOOD. Nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; riches, honor, power, pleasure,... | |
 | 1892 - 520 pages
...beauty apprehended from without, I still call love. MRS. BROWNING, Drama of Ex-. Extrem, of Sword Glare. If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. EMERSON, The Rhodora. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And... | |
 | Anna Cogswell Wood - 1892 - 280 pages
...blue. There was a duty imposed, but there was also a compensation ; for beauty is its own reward, and " if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." The next morning Westover waked to find himself far on his southward journey. He mused long and deeply,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 608 pages
...For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 42, page 121. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was Barclay... | |
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